Resources
Lech Lecha: A Wide Open Tent
If the tent, our home, is truly open on all sides, there is an understanding that each person is continuing onward on a different journey. Our Torah is blessing us to be just as supportive in saying goodbye as we are in saying hello.
VOTING AND DEMOCRACY: One Possible Halakhic Approach
Rabbi David Polsky reflects on what Jewish tradition has to say about voting and democratic practice.
D is for Democracy
Take heart and courage in the words of movement elder, poet, and essayist Aurora Levins Morales.
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Noach: Opportunities for Healthy Reboots Are Built into the Universe
Just as human choices brought about the flood and built the Tower of Babel, our choices in the election will determine where we go from here. And though the possibility of the bet-lamed of destruction is surely out there, so too is its opposite, lamed-bet — heart. In all of the anxiety, we can bring love to bear on the choices before us.
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ROUNDTABLE: How Can U.S. Jewish Communities Play an Effective Role in Coalition Work to Advance Multiracial Democracy?
A panel of pathbreaking organizers, including Ginna Green, Graie Hagans, Abby Lublin, Megan Black, Matthew David Hom, and Rabbi Aryeh Cohen, PhD, on how Jews can advance multiracial pro-democracy coalitions today.
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Democracy: More Than Just Elections
Rabbi Jill Jacobs explores the wisdom Judaism can offer in building free societies.
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Rosh Hashanah: An Accounting of the Soul
[These High Holy Days,] may we ask hard questions. May we see ourselves from both the throne of din and the throne of rachamim. And may we, steeped in self-compassion and God’s compassion, do better.
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Nitzavim: Interrogating the Society We Build
We must continuously strive to implement justice, as it is so easy to backslide when our attention and our resolve falter. Even during a time of war, when we are at our most vulnerable, we must still check ourselves to see if our conduct is as moral as possible.
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Ki Tavo: Torah That Lights a Fire
[The Torah] asks us to take seriously our power and ability to create change. It asks us to get off the couch, and to use the best of our spiritual and political wisdom to challenge the injustice of our time and transform the world.
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El Malei Rachamim
In the wake of the events of October 7, 2023, many of us in the global Jewish community have found ourselves longing for liturgical language to speak to the sense of loss, hopelessness, and heartbreak we have felt over the past year. The following words are an adaptation of El Malei Rachamim (“God full of compassion”), a prayer traditionally recited over the dead at funerals and during Yizkor on Yom Kippur, created by Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, President of Hebrew College.
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Ki Tetze: Honoring Creation & Being Good Allies
Our needs are not always primary. In fact, to be a good ally and a good steward of Creation, we must put the needs of others ahead of our own.
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